Is there such a thing as a web-based document server intended for a small business? We scan about 1000 pages a month using a high speed Fujitsu Scansnap and would love to be able to search/access the documents remotely from various platforms (i.e. from my iPhone, pcs and macs). The only solutions I have come across thus far are aimed at enterprise-level medium to large businesses and cost $10,000+ like Xerox Scan-Flow-Store
If there isn’t a ‘plug-and-play’ solution, how could I go about making an elegant web-based document management system myself? i.e. using a web server + various programs?
To rephrase, the functionality I’m looking for is: scanned ocr’d PDF files are indexed and stored online so that they can be searched & accessed from any computer (or wireless device like iPhone) on the net.
Have you considered a free portal system like Windows SharePoint Services? You don’t say if your servers are Windows-based (which they would have to be for this) but if they are, this is free and allows you to create an intranet or an extranet site which is web-based, stores metadata and allows searches of documents on any device.
I’ve looked at all the options suggested and KnowledgeTree appears to be just perfect. They offer a reasonably priced hosted solution that should let me search and access all my docs from any computer/platform including my iphone.